State Highway Commissioner v. Newstead

Charles M. Ziegler, as State highway commissioner of the State of Michigan, plaintiff, brought suit to restrain Cecil C. Newstead and Yerna Newstead, his wife, defendants, from building on lot 11, Indian Village subdivision of part of the southwest quarter of section 30, T3N, R10E, Pontiac township, Oakland county, Michigan. Only the easterly 8-1/2 feet of lot 11 is involved in this suit, defendants not claiming any interest in the westerly 16-1/2 feet of the lot. In their cross bill they ask that title to this easterly 8-1/2 feet be quieted in them, that they be decreed to be the owners, and…